On Thursday, as Reuters reported, President Donald Trump said that he will not allow former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify before the United…
On Thursday, as Reuters reported, President Donald Trump said that he will not allow former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify before the United States Congress. “I would say it’s done,” Trump said, suggesting that allowing McGahn to testify would create a precedent, and adding that McGahn had already talked to Special Counsel Robert Mueller “for 30 hours.”
Trump’s refusal to allow McGahn to testify perhaps comes as no surprise, given that the former White House Counsel has — since the release of Robert Mueller’s final report — become one of the central figures in the Russia probe. Mueller has cleared Trump and his campaign of conspiracy with Russia but the special counsel has seemingly not cleared the president of obstruction of justice — the prosecutors refused to charge the president with the crime, without exonerating him.
House Democrats have moved on from collusion to obstruction, and Don McGahn has become the central figure in the case.
